Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Mike Linksvayer <ml AT creativecommons.org>]

Andrea Glorioso wrote:
> The AGNULA project [0] has officially launched in February 2004 the
> "AGNULA Libre Music" project [1], a web-accessible database of music
> licensed under either of:
>
> * Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 1.0 License
> * Creative Commons Attribution 1.0 License
> * EFF Open Audio License 1.0.1

Surely PD qualifies as libre? 
<http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain>.

> Some things that we are currently studying are:
>
> - international mirrors of the database

http://ibiblio.org would be a good start.

> - international network on streaming net radio, devoted only to Libre
>   Music

iRATE radio http://irate.sf.net isn't streaming, but might eventually 
have the ability to only play music under desired licenses.

Also see http://decentralize.org/ the home of Alluvium.

Also lots of playlist aggregators like http://webjay.org can serve a 
similar purpose.

We do have interest from someone running a traditional streaming site 
for hosting a CC channel.

> - a p2p network for Libre Music content?

I think http://gnomoradio.org/ wants to be that.  Among others.

> I really hope we will  be able to  discuss how our and other  people's
> project can intermix between each other.  I'm subscribed to this list,
> but feel free  to use the   developers AT lists.agnula.org or mail me  or
> Davide Fugazza privately if you prefer.

It looks like http://muzik.agnula.org still has some very visible bugs 
-- I get one or more warnings along the lines of

Warning: Undefined index: preferences in 
/mnt/var/www/muzik.agnula.org/htdocs/manager.php on line 31

Warning: Cannot add header information - headers already sent by (output 
started at /mnt/var/www/muzik.agnula.org/htdocs/manager.php:31) in 
/mnt/var/www/muzik.agnula.org/htdocs/manager.php on line 157

Warning: Smarty error: unable to read resource: "" in 
/mnt/var/www/muzik.agnula.org/smarty/Smarty.class.php on line 1151

on every page.  After uploading I got a page with only an error message, 
though going back it looked like the upload was successful, though 
artist/album/track#/title were'nt picked up.

Also it isn't immediately obvious where one should go to contribute 
music ("Manager").  And once you're there it isn't obvious that you can 
only upload by, by-sa, or oal tracks (and I hope pd will be added).  It 
is kind of a pain to upload a by-nc-sa (for example) track and realize 
after uploading that license is not allowed (I understand for good 
reason, just a UI suggestion).

While I'm at it, one thing that really bugs me is the lack of direct 
download links.  Muzik.angula.org isn't alone in this at all, unfortunately.

Here's what I'm talking about:

http://muzik.agnula.org/view.php?view=track&id=134

Download link is

http://muzik.agnula.org/download.php?id=134

which redirects to

http://muzik.agnula.org/files/mima/03_-_Mima_-_A_espera.mp3

that's better than having download.php?id=134 just sending the mp3 
contents with

Content-Disposition "attachment; filename=03_-_Mima_-_A_espera.mp3"

but it is still painful to a) download and share the file and b) use 
with services like <http://webjay.org> that depend upon direct download 
URLs.

Finally, it's really cool that you're publishing RDF in accordance with 
<http://creativecommons.org/technology/nonweb>.  Two small suggestions 
regarding that:

- Also add

<Work rdf:about="">
  <license rdf:resouce="{license_url}"/>
</Work>

so that <http://search.creativecommons.org>, which currently only looks 
at metadata for the current document, may index your content.  It would 
also make things easier if you'd add the appropriate license button to 
each page (e.g., 
<http://creativecommons.org/images/public/somerights.png>), otherwise 
URLs need to be added manually via 
<http://search.creativecommons.org/url-add/>.

- And actually embed in mp3 and ogg files a copyright statement with 
reference to the page containing RDF also according to 
<http://creativecommons.org/technology/nonweb>.

One last thing -- it would be super cool if you could also ask whether 
an uploaded song is derived from another, asking for a URL for the 
source song(s) if that is the case, and publish dc:source as appropriate 
in the metadata (and expose someplace in the web page).

Sorry if that seems like a lot of "suggestions" (I have many more!) 
coming from nowhere.  If I'm being overly critical it is because on 
first glance your site has tons of potential.

Please let me know when the PHP warnings mentioned above are taken care 
of and I'll post an entry at <http://creativecommons.org/weblog/> about 
Agnula.

Thanks,
Mike

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  Mike Linksvayer
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